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Re: US Java alert? [message #34979] Tue, 29 January 2013 20:16
Cameron Kaiser is currently offline  Cameron Kaiser
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> The DoD is telling people to turn off the Java plug in. While governments

> websites have forms that depend on it to be active.CNet says Oracle may not

> have a total fix for years.

> Turn off the Java Plug in and experiment. You tell me if it is a Java

> script or Java or any other distinction you want to make.

> I turned off the Java Plug in weeks ago and found online transactions I

> could not do. And this is after installation of a Java script blocker

> months before that which allowed the same forms to be active.


TenFourFox has had Java disabled specifically in the browser since version 6,
and I haven't found any form I cannot complete with my bank or billpay sites.
If you have some specific URLs, I'd be interested.

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